The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
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ter, spherical in form and said to be without a
flaw, has lately been offered to the principal
foreign curio firm of Yokohama for $4,000. The
Mikado has one Of the two finest ones known
JOE BUCK, who lives about three miles north
east of Bushnell Ill, lost a horse in a singular
manner last week. The animal jumped forward
in such a manner as to run the tines of pitch
fork full length up its nose, and died instantly.
A PENTwATER Cdich) school teacher was out
fishing when he suddenly caught sight of rat
tlesnake about to spring on him. He pulled his
flask from his hip pocket, took long draught,
and reached for the fish. The snake saw the
point and skunk away.
The English red tape army and navy officials
do queer things. Not only do they send canned
meat to Australia where the woods are full of
meat; rice to India, and sugar and rum to
Jamaica, but on a recent occasion they literally
sent Goals to Newcastle for some war ships on
the Tyne.
ONE of the leaders of the bricklayers' strike is
a man who left Prussia for that country's good
and who has been in Chicago seven years with
out doing stroke of work to earn an honest
shilling. As he sits in a saloon with free beer
before him he feels that 'us bricklayers must
have our rights"
STATES adjacent now fear that the newly en-
acted law in Connecticut imposing a twenty
year term of imprisonment on criminals con-
victed for third time-no matter for what
offenSe-will flood them with the offenders, and
are anxious that some means be provided to
stave OFF the rush.
Mrs. MAGDALENE BoGGs was born in Ian
caster, Pa, Dec. %, 1888 She arrived in In
diana in 1S45, and has lived with her children in
) Milton, Ind, and Bennett, ILL.,, ever since She
is small in stature, but well preserved for one
who has seen so many years. AT present she re-
sides in Milton, Ind
THE fftieth anniversary commemorating the
Rrct s,troJ ,ott, ,,ft l,, 80 10
tant Episcopal church in Iowa will be cele-
brated in Trinity Parish, Davenport, Ia, July 49,
The Rev. DR.. Louderback, as the oldest living
rector OF Trinity church. will by invitation
preach the sermon on that occasion.
IT is stated in Newberg, N. Y, that in a ship
yard at that place there is being constructed the
first vessel to be propelled by electricity ever
long feet wide aud five feet deep 1t is to be
run by stored electricity. 1t is building for a
Newark, IN. j. electric company, and will be
run between that city and New York.
CHINESE are slowly but gradually gaining q
stronger foothold in Victoria, B. c., and are now
ten times stronger numerically than they
were three months ago. One of the tyhees is
building long row of cabins near the Royal
City Mills and it is reported that he has pur-
chased the land on which he is building, thus Sc
curing all the rights of a landed proprietor
If the concentric rings in trees are a correct
index of their age, that mysterious structure
near Manchester, Coffee county, Tenn, called
the Old Stone Fort, is of very ancient origin.
The trees growing on the rude stone walls that
surround the old structure show, by their rings,
fully 500 years growth. These trees, now being
cut away are the only witnesses to the age of
the stone work.
HERE is a French post Office story: One day
sthere came to the Paris post Office letter ad-
dressed lin English) Postmaster General,
Do, OLE TO
doubtful and lllegible superscription, deceived
by the word general - wrote across the envel
ope an order to try the war office. 1t was sent
there and soon returned with the Endorsement
that General Postmaster was unknown.
Mrs. RUBY MANTEL of Keller, Mich, has been
lying ill in bed for eighteen months until the
other day, when she suddenly rose and dressed
herself without assistance She now feels per-
fectly well, whereas previously she had not been
able to drag herself around the house, Mrs Man
tel says that she prayed for recovery from the
time she was taken i'll, and that her prayers just
lbefore her restoration to health were no more
: earnest than they had been.
|, A CHICAGO WOMAN who has had some success
in the Christian science faith cure made an
astonishing cure last week in the case of NJ. F.
Potter, an Iowa man, who injured his spine ten
months ago. and came to look on his condition
as hopeless. Nine doctors treated him for six
months and then gave him up to die. The
I Chicago woman cured him in two weeks with
: out administering drop of medicine, and he is
2 now so well that he can walk mile at brisk
gait without the slightest Inconvenience.
HERMANN, lately deceased, once performed
before the Sultan Abdul Aziz, says the London
: Times and threw a valuable watch of his ma
iesty's into the Bosphorls. There was a great
outcry, which the coD1uror checked by conjur-
ing up the watch again into the Sultan's pocket.
For this he received a present of 500 Turkish
pounds. 1t seems, however, that he really did
N,1. s,,&,
that the one which he conjured back was
replica duplicate obtained before hand from
the maker of the original timepiece.
A $500 CLOCK which pipes thirty-six Italian,
French, German and American tunes with
wooden flutes besides telling the hours and
minutes in silvery chimes, has been placed in
the vestibuie near the dining room at the
Executive Mansion at Albany, N. Y The times
piece is of natural carved oak and was pur-
chased at Berlin. The flutes are said to be
over q century old, and were presented by Fred
erick tine Great TO q favorite lady of his Court
Three years ago the music box was placed I'M
der the hammer at Berlin, and an enterprsing
ieweler combined the mechanism with that of a
clock.
MRS WALTER MEADE, the wife of an Adrian,
Mich, drayman, had been confined to her bed
for several years with chronic diseases. A short
time ago an internal absceSs began to sap her
remaining strength and her case was abandoned
at the utmost she could live only two days. Mrs
Meade prayed earnestly that night to be restored
to health and awoke refreshed New life seemed
to course through her veins and she grew
stronger every hour. The abscess dried up and
disappeared, the other ailments departed and
Mrs Meade is now well. Besides that, her hus-
band, long a scoffer at religion, is now devout
church-goer.
THE Mayor Of a Dakota town recently called
upon the editor of st. Paul paper. AS soon as
he caught a glimpse of that individual, he broke
out as follows: See here, you galoot, what do
you mean by snubbing our town. why, my
dear sir" replied the editor, II have never
snubbed your town" Yes you have" said the
Mayor. Didn't you print dispatch in your
paper the other day about the new hearse we
have Just got for our town, and didn't you fail
10 add, great enthusiasm prevails?' Now, we
can't have any more of that. You want to bear
in mind that great enthusiasm always prevails
over anything new in Dakota And If you don't
run it in every time it will be wuss for you. You
hear me-
TIE Queens English, the deans English ard
the newspaper English have received full atten.
ton. Why, asks the Quincy Herald, should not
railroad English come in for share? Passing
by the uninteigible shout with which the
brakeman reinforces the other noises of the
train, we can find some choice selections meant
not for the ear, but the eye For example, il is
within the memory of the oldest inhabtant and
many of his juniors that a prominent railroad
company issued its pocket timetable with the
arrival at and the departure from of trains at
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